runConfigure script

[Volker Boerchers <bo...@kidata.de>]

hi,

the runConfigure script has no option to set the install prefix which i
would find very useful. Attached you find an appropriate patch for
src/runConfigure.

Regards,
  Volker
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Volker Börchers, kidata AG, Königswinter, Germany

Re: runConfigure script

[Joanne Bogart <jr...@slac.stanford.edu>]

Volker Boerchers wrote:

> sorry, i forgot to mention the other option i added was
> "-C <extra configure options>" (alike the other "extra * options")
> This way you can give configure every option.
> 
> Regards,
>   Volker

Great! Thanks.

                        Joanne

Re: runConfigure script

[Rahul Jain <ra...@jtcsv.com>]

Okay the changes are in. Thank you for the submissions.

> "-C <extra configure options>" (alike the other "extra * options")
> This way you can give configure every option.

The -C option allows you to specify ONE extra command line option which
is passed on to 'configure'.

rahul

Re: runConfigure script

[Volker Boerchers <bo...@kidata.de>]

On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Joanne Bogart wrote:

> > the runConfigure script has no option to set the install prefix which i
> > would find very useful. Attached you find an appropriate patch for
> > src/runConfigure.
>
> I need both prefix and exec-prefix.  What I've done for my own personal
> use is just make a clone of runConfigure with the settings I need, but
> the real problem is that runConfigure only exposes a fraction of the 
> functionality of the configure script.  There will always be some oddball

sorry, i forgot to mention the other option i added was
"-C <extra configure options>" (alike the other "extra * options")
This way you can give configure every option.

Regards,
  Volker
-- 
Volker Börchers, kidata AG, Königswinter, Germany

Re: runConfigure script

[Joanne Bogart <jr...@SLAC.Stanford.EDU>]

Volker Boerchers wrote:
> 
> hi,
> 
> the runConfigure script has no option to set the install prefix which i
> would find very useful. Attached you find an appropriate patch for
> src/runConfigure.
> 
> Regards,
>   Volker
> --
I need both prefix and exec-prefix.  What I've done for my own personal
use is just make a clone of runConfigure with the settings I need, but
the real problem is that runConfigure only exposes a fraction of the 
functionality of the configure script.  There will always be some oddball
like me who needs to get at a configure option not supported by
runConfigure.  It would be better to get rid of runConfigure (as a layer
on top of configure) altogether and fold the services it provides into
the configure script, but I don't know enough about configure/autoconf
to do this.

                                Joanne

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